The John-Henry Westen Show - April 12, 2022


Inside the disturbing mind of a prominent gay atheist at the World Economic Forum


Episode Stats

Length

13 minutes

Words per Minute

137.99942

Word Count

1,925

Sentence Count

121

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

Until very recently, Professor Yuval Noah Harari was largely unknown except for his frequent appearances at the World Economic Forum. Now, he is a top advisor to the WEDF, and the liberal media is going nuts over him. Why? Why is everybody waiting with bated breath on his every word?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Until very recently, Professor Yuval Noah Harari was largely unknown, except enter the World
00:00:06.580 Economic Forum, and all of a sudden, he's a star on the stage of the world. The liberal media is
00:00:12.480 going nuts over the guy. Why? Well, he touts all the liberal boxes. He checks them like nothing
00:00:17.820 else. There is no God. We are, you know, we are supreme. We're going to get there with people
00:00:23.320 being combined with computers. It's going to be an amazing future, et cetera, et cetera.
00:00:27.140 Well, what is driving this guy? Why is he a top advisor to the World Economic Forum? Why is everybody
00:00:34.180 waiting with bated breath on his every word? Well, I'll give you a hint. It has something to do with
00:00:40.060 the fact that he's an active homosexual. That's just a hint. This is the John Henry Weston Show,
00:00:45.540 where we're going to go into that in much greater depth. Stay tuned.
00:00:56.700 Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father,
00:01:10.880 and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. So, Professor Yuval Noah Harari is a highly influential
00:01:19.460 favorite, especially in today's politics. But why is he so involved in politics? Well, let's look at his
00:01:27.740 key ideas and beliefs. We can begin to see his motivation into getting into all of this. He's a
00:01:34.860 lecturer at the Department of History in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Harari uses history, philosophy,
00:01:41.100 and biology in his reflections on what he believes are the most important global challenges facing the
00:01:47.360 world today, and strives to focus the public conversation on these issues. So, with this goal
00:01:53.900 in mind, he wrote five books that describe his worldview and the things he thinks others ought to
00:02:00.640 prioritize. He also co-founded Sapienship. The word sapien, of course, coming from Homo sapien. So,
00:02:07.000 Sapienship, he calls a social impact company with projects in the fields of entertainment and education.
00:02:13.260 with the man he refers to as his husband. And I kid you not, he refers to him multiple times as his
00:02:21.320 husband. And it's actually his original agent as well. His name is Itzhak Yahav. Now, we'll get into
00:02:29.100 all that in a moment. But this company, and I'll quote it for you, advocates for global responsibility
00:02:35.280 through its mission. To clarify the global conversation, to focus attention on the most
00:02:40.980 important challenges, and to support the quest for solutions. And Sapienship highlights three
00:02:47.520 problems. Those are technological disruption, ecological collapse, and the nuclear threat. End quote.
00:02:54.560 Of course, hence why he's so popular nowadays. Harari mentions his husband in multiple interviews.
00:03:02.300 And, get this, he admits with pride that being gay affects his research, which serves as a major
00:03:09.960 indicator of his worldview. Check this out.
00:03:15.200 Science certainly helped me to accept my sexuality as it is. People often say that it is unnatural to be
00:03:23.080 gay. That nature wanted males to love females and females to love males, and gay people break the laws of
00:03:30.380 nature. Scientific research taught me that this is utter nonsense. There is just no such thing as
00:03:38.340 unnatural behavior. Anything that exists is by definition also natural.
00:03:46.680 So Harari argues that there is no purpose to sex comparing human sexuality with the sexuality of a
00:03:54.260 chimpanzee. Watch it for yourself. For example, among our closest relatives in nature, the chimpanzees,
00:04:02.720 homosexual behavior is quite common. Most sexual activities among chimpanzees are not done in order to
00:04:11.920 procreate little chimps. Rather, chimpanzees use sex to cement political alliances, to establish intimacy,
00:04:21.640 and to diffuse tensions. Is there anything unnatural about it? The idea that sex exists
00:04:28.880 only for the purpose of procreation is complete nonsense invented by priests and rabbis.
00:04:36.480 He continues, he said,
00:04:38.600 In truth, our concept of natural and unnatural are not taken from biology. They're taken from
00:04:44.400 Christian theology, he says. So, as we know, God, of course, did create man to be superior to all other
00:04:52.460 animals, but Harari reduces humanity to its base animal level, describing God as a myth, a big man
00:04:59.080 in the sky who gets angry when two men love one another, he says. And continuing with this kind of
00:05:06.200 language, he says that no big man in the sky gets angry. The only people who get angry are all sorts
00:05:14.300 of priests and rabbis. So, he fleshes out this idea of religion as mythology in his book, Sapiens,
00:05:21.500 describing how humans became the dominant creature on the earth. And Harari's official website describes
00:05:28.260 this first book as one that analyzes various topics, following humanity's development across history
00:05:34.740 and ranging from, we rule the world because we are the only animal that can believe in things that
00:05:40.960 exist purely in our own imagination, such as God, states, money, and human rights, end quote. And also,
00:05:48.660 he says, with the help of novel technologies, within a few centuries or even decades, Sapiens will
00:05:55.000 upgrade themselves into completely different beings enjoying God-like qualities and abilities,
00:06:01.500 end quote. So, for example, in chapter one, Harari claims that, and I quote, we assume that a large
00:06:09.160 brain, the use of tools, superior learning abilities, and complex social structures are huge advantages.
00:06:16.180 It seems self-evident, he says, that these have made humankind the most powerful animal on earth,
00:06:22.400 but humans enjoyed all these advantages for a full two million years while remaining weak and
00:06:29.540 marginal creatures, end quote. In the next chapter, he explains his theory of war, in which he says,
00:06:36.600 and I quote, having so recently been one of the underdogs of the savannah, that means of the desert,
00:06:43.820 we are full of fears and anxiety over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous.
00:06:51.540 Many historical calamities, from deadly wars to ecological catastrophes, have resulted from this
00:06:59.060 over-hasty jump, end quote. So, this is where he's coming from. So, if you look into his book further,
00:07:08.180 he claims this, quote, fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively.
00:07:15.560 We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the dreamtime myths of aboriginal
00:07:22.860 Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states. Such myths give sapiens the unprecedented
00:07:31.840 ability to cooperate flexibly in large numbers, end quote. In other words, human superiority is the
00:07:39.860 result of storytelling, and humanity's myths bring about our social nature. So, picking up where sapiens
00:07:47.720 left off, Homo Deus, is another book of his, explores how global power might shift as the principal force
00:07:56.340 of evolution, natural selection, is replaced by intelligent design. And we saw that in his last video,
00:08:02.800 where it's not intelligent design by God, it's our own intelligent design, as he says.
00:08:07.040 Harari reiterates this idea many, many times when talking about technology. Watch for yourself.
00:08:16.400 We humans should get used to the idea that we are no longer mysterious souls. We are now hackable animals.
00:08:27.160 That's what we are.
00:08:27.940 So, these clips are from Harari's talks, mostly at the World Economic Forum, where he's not only a
00:08:37.920 contributor, he's an agenda contributor as well. So, Harari published a list of errors from this book,
00:08:45.940 Homo Deus, on his website, correcting them. But he maintains that none of these errors changed the
00:08:51.920 core arguments of the book. Most of the corrections were either statistics, dates, or other details, but
00:08:58.540 some, like this one, seemed to be rationalization, an attempt to save his argument in the face of
00:09:06.280 criticism. And I'll quote it for you.
00:09:08.780 While this may have been a public relations stunt more than a serious move, in numerous other companies,
00:09:15.820 algorithms are joining management boards in more discreet ways. Official membership of the board
00:09:22.160 is perhaps still restricted to humans, but what these humans choose to do is increasingly shaped by
00:09:30.060 algorithms. In many cases, the humans just rubber stamp the recommendations of the algorithms,
00:09:37.660 end quote.
00:09:38.180 So, having received criticism, Harari responds with a claim that his argument can still stand
00:09:44.960 without this evidence that he originally hoped to support it with. His example of a particular
00:09:51.180 company, now no longer relevant, failed, and he turned to a personal statement about other companies
00:09:58.220 leaving the specifics behind. He claimed that there were companies with AI on their boards, and of course,
00:10:05.300 there weren't. But clearly, he takes events and fits them into his narrative. His narrative continues
00:10:13.020 to be very empirical and negative. According to Harari, he says, Homo sapiens is a post-truth
00:10:20.300 species whose power depends on creating and believing fictions. So, Harari says he believes in science
00:10:29.840 and its two processes of deterministic and random processes. Now, a combination of the two, he claims,
00:10:37.560 creates probability, and he suggests the closest thing there is to freedom is this probability. But
00:10:44.000 there is no free will. He claims that even though free will was always a myth and not a scientific
00:10:51.960 reality, the United States Declaration of Independence begins this way. We hold these truths to be self-evident,
00:11:05.960 that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, and
00:11:15.680 these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In his book Sapiens, Harari gives us his own version
00:11:23.260 of this famous sentence. He puts it this way, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
00:11:31.220 evolved differently, that they are born with certain mutable characteristics, that means changeable
00:11:38.600 characteristics, and that among these are life and the pursuit of pleasure. Harari's argument is that
00:11:46.640 since there is no creator, he calls God the man in the sky, remember, we cannot be created equal, and
00:11:54.020 therefore human beings cannot be endowed by the creator with any unalienable rights. We see Harari
00:12:01.540 translating the Declaration of Independence into biological terms, an error that he seems to
00:12:08.420 habitually commit. In fact, Harari claims that everything, right from free will to happiness, must
00:12:15.300 pass the scientific meter, thus rubbishing or making garbage all of philosophy. He's willing to speak
00:12:23.860 his logic and take it to its logical extreme, which is always a good test of things, but where he gets to
00:12:31.560 is, of course, insanity. He says there's no free will, people shouldn't be given, you know, inalienable
00:12:37.400 rights at all. They don't have them, and so he's willing to put all of that on the table. He's really
00:12:44.260 willing to speak openly about forcibly getting the jab, how that should be tracking people. He doesn't
00:12:53.860 care about freedom. He doesn't care about human freedom at all, and at least that way he's being
00:12:59.120 consistent when many others would not. It's a very scary reality he's pointing to. It's a very alarming
00:13:06.780 thing, and that's why for those people with some sanity left, his videos are totally alarming, but
00:13:14.120 you've got to see the devotion that follows him from the left. People are enamored. Video hosts say,
00:13:22.000 oh, I can't wait to have you back on again. It's so good. I feel all tingly when you come on.
00:13:26.680 That's not even an exaggeration. Watch.
00:13:30.860 It's brilliant, and it's out right now. Please welcome one of the brightest minds
00:13:34.400 on planet Earth, the incredible Yuval Noah Harari. How are you? Yuval, thank you for coming back to
00:13:42.740 speak to us on the show. We're so happy that you're here. Thank you for inviting me again.
00:13:46.780 Oh, we would have you on every week. I mean, just for me personally, for my own sense of self.
00:13:53.740 For LifeSite News, this is John Henry Weston, and may God bless you.